The stated mission of the group publishing this series of books is to preserve our heritage of children’s folksongs.  If you share this mission, this may be a worthy addition to your library, but as a stand-alone picture book, it doesn’t hold up as well as some of the others in the series.  On the back of the book they spin it as a “great American nonsense song with a real tongue-twister for the chorus,” but really that means it’s hard to read aloud, many of the non-sense words leaving the reader unsure how to pronounce them, and the story seems to be that of a man who married a wife who’s a slob.  The illustrations do their best to try to make sense of the nonsense (with mice mirroring humans), but it seems a case of doing the best one can with what one has to work with.  The music is in the back, and maybe if I could read music the tune would’ve helped, but as is, it was an awkward read.